Posted on 03/23/2009 7:35:50 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
The Ann Arbor News will close in July and will be replaced by a Web-based, media company called AnnArbor.com, Laurel Champion, publisher of The News, announced in a 9 a.m. meeting with staff.
"While this is an incredibly difficult decision for us, this is by no means the end of local journalism in Ann Arbor," Champion said.
Champion described AnnArbor.com as an innovative, community news and information service. AnnArbor.com also will produce a twice-a-week newspaper, published on Thursday and Sunday and a total-market coverage product once a week.
The Ann Arbor News will continue publishing a daily newspaper through July, she said.
"The Ann Arbor News was struggling as a daily print newspaper, with steep losses in 2008," Champion said. "At the same time the demand for local news and information in a wired community has never been stronger."
The News, a daily printed publication for 174 years, will continue its seven-day a week cycle, with updates and additional content on mlive.com/ann-arbor, through July.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
Wow. I understand business models change and that nothing lasts forever, but as someone who lived in A2 at two different times in my life, this is kinda sad. 174 years is a long time, but I guess that’s life.
All this
print media
death watch
proves that
leftist voters
don’t read
All they do
is watch
leftist TV
talking points
as presented
by the
leftist
“neutral”
“professional”
“journalist”
wing
of the
Democrat party.
LEFTIST
VOTERS
DON’T
READ
LIBERAL
VOTERS
ARE
UNREAD
LIBERAL
VOTERS
HAVE
NO CLUE
ABOUT
THE ISSUES
LIBERAL
VOTERS
ARE
MIND-NUMBED
ROBOTS
this is by no means the end of local journalism in Ann Arbor...just as when it started operations, didn't mean the beginning.
The Lansing State Journal is quickly heading in that direction. They’re getting beaten up by a weekly freebie, which is even further left than the LSJ.
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Champion described AnnArbor.com as an innovative, community news and information service
Innovative spelling and grammar usage, I'll grant them that. For the rest, news and info, I'll have to call them to task for using a euphemism when the straightforward word, "propaganda", would suffice.
Their bird cage liner was certainly not going any distance beyond the local community, unless it was to the outskirts toward Ypsilanti, where the recycle center is.
HF
:’)
Ypsilanti... has it ever had a bar or other watering hole called Tipsilanti? That just seems like a pretty good idea all of a sudden...
“174 years is a long time, but I guess that’s life.”
Buggy-whip factories lasted a long time, too. I don’t weep for them.
A2 ping.
Not weeping. Maybe just sniffing a little.
Tnx. Sorry to see the good folks of AA lose their daily paper. Not sorry to see it happen to the AA news though!
And the left-leaning customer base - if they insist on reading a daily newspaper - can read the Michigan Daily, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, or even the New York Slimes. Plus, if they want more left propaganda, there are plenty of events to keep them "energized" on or around the U-M campus.
I had a discussion w/my leftist sister about this tonight. She was afraid that since some people can’t afford computers, they wouldn’t have access to the news if newspapers folded. Women and minorities...
Personally, between computers and 24 hr cable news, and the network news, I think that people who want this info can access it in many ways. People just aren’t interested in reading the paper. They want the news, but most don’t care about the format anymore. Newspapers as business entities are confusing the format with the content and trying to hold on to an outdated format.
The Detroit Free Press lead the way in investigating, reporting and ultimately bringing Kwame to justice. Which website has the resources to do that?
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